Bureau Veritas anticipates a new system of certification of the ships based on a computerized procedure

Maillot: “that of the certification of the ships is the last great area in which it is present obsolete documentation”

The French society of classification and certification Bureau Veritas (BV) has announced to have created a new system of certification of the ships based on a computerized procedure that has the objective to reduce the activity of shipowners and operators correlated to such process and to simplify the access to the information on the ship and its state.

“In a world in which today so a lot is made on-line - it has found the director of the Ships division in Service di Bureau Veritas, Claude Maillot - that of the certification of the ships is the last great area in which it is present obsolete documentation. We have seen the certificate of classification of a ship to grow from a simple page in order to arrive to a document of many pages and attached that is realized by it is printed that by written parts by hand. And it has become ingestibile - it has emphasized Maillot - subject to errors and different interpretations and difficult to dawn. The new system of certification of Bureau Veritas - it has explained - newly reduces the certificate of classification of a ship to a document of a single page. All the remainder is on-line in a standard-sized ones and of easy access, that it reduces the swindle and confusion, error possibilities and that allows to add us new services in order to return the activity of the shipowners and the operators more efficient”.

Bureau Veritas has specified that own new certificate of classification contains only the essential information on the ship and the notation of class, and is printed on paper recycled with the logo in relief in order to prevent the fraudulent copy of the document. All the other information, than up to now were inserted as attached, now are updated electronically and can be consulted from harbour shipowners, charters and authorities if they come allowed approached it from the shipowner.

“The authorized customers - she has evidenced Maillot - can be connected to the www.veristar.com site and print this of which they have need on the state of the ship, and this can be been profitable available in way detailed or simplified on the base of their necessities”.